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  • noun The state or condition of being snobby.

Etymologies

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snobby +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Juniper, my snobbiness is based primarily on school rankings and not (as is the case for the fabulous dude in this post) on fancy-sounding names.

    Snobby-Nosed Nonsense Candid Engineer 2009

  • She admits to an element of "snobbiness" in the way she views citified Alaskans.

    For Many Alaskans, Wasilla 2008

  • There wasn't any snobbiness, like: 'That's not a real score.'

    Trent Reznor: 'I'm not at war with myself as I once was' 2011

  • The slightest decrease in the amount of MSG and spices used can trigger off the food snobbiness.

    Archive 2009-04-01 e d b m 2009

  • The slightest decrease in the amount of MSG and spices used can trigger off the food snobbiness.

    Pho Ga - Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe e d b m 2009

  • All snobbiness aside, it is possible to earn a middle-class living from a McDonald's restaurant if you own it or manage it, or both.

    The Broad Brush Misses Sometimes Anne Johnson 2009

  • All snobbiness aside, it is possible to earn a middle-class living from a McDonald's restaurant if you own it or manage it, or both.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Anne Johnson 2009

  • Then, over the course of Bill Clinton's (bungled, distasteful) presidency and Hillary Clinton's (bungled, distasteful) campaign for the presidency, the couple have separately and together become incarnations of the most unattractive attributes of their generation's elite – blind ambition cloaked in do-good self-righteousness, a sense of entitlement, high-handed snobbiness ( "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies"), hedonism (Monica et al.), narcissism.

    Notable & Quotable 2008

  • Then, over the course of Bill Clinton's (bungled, distasteful) presidency and Hillary Clinton's (bungled, distasteful) campaign for the presidency, the couple have separately and together become incarnations of the most unattractive attributes of their generation's elite – blind ambition cloaked in do-good self-righteousness, a sense of entitlement, high-handed snobbiness ( 'I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies'), hedonism (Monica et al.), narcissism.

    Political Diary 2008

  • With equal snobbiness I informed her that, oh yes indeed he probably was ecstatic, because he could probably sell them for ten times her price minimum on Ebay.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Anne Johnson 2007

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